This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.
Even then I'm finding that Wikipedia's quality has dropped dramatically in recent years. As they become more zealous about only including "encyclopedic information", I'm increasingly finding pages that have had all of their useful information sucked out of them.
No! The rest of the content is still there, loads of it. Google simple has stopped caring, no it is not "too hard", they just don't care enough.
Case in point, Google even aids in crappy results, by aliasing your search terms, preventing precision, putting monetization above all else.
Google sucks. SEO/spam is not worse, Google is, they know it, they do not care, because so far it has no affected profit negatively.
GitHub
Stackoverflow
Even Hacker News
Quality goes way way up depending on topic.
I kinda wish Google would apply some more personalized ML to my searches
Anyway, I can’t think of any searches where appending stuff like that wouldn’t be universally beneficial (or detrimental), so I don’t see the personalization angle.
Bing seems to surface a lot more unrelated or spam my websites at the top of the results.
Every time I stumble in to google I am appalled at how bad the UX is.
Think about what OP said here for a second:
>every time I can’t find something I switch to Google and find the answer right away
If you assume both Google and Bing to be similarly good but not the same, then you would expect this to happen.
Say there are two sets of websites, the ones that Bing finds (B+) and some that it doesn't (B-).
The same would hold for Google, there would be G+ and G-.
Now if you search on Bing first, and find what you need, you stop. This is a result in B+.
If you don't find it, your result is in B-. Then you search in Google and maybe get a G+ result, since they have different sets of websites they find.
You might also not find it (G-) but in the end both search engines aren't that bad, so this rarely happens.
Now you might find the same result if you start on Google instead, and aren't lucky in the first go, and then try Bing.
TIL[0]:
> Layer 8 is a term used to refer to user or political layer on top of the 7-layer OSI model of computer networking.
Refute the opinion, or add something of value, instead of simply sneering.
Reddit does this thing where it advertises other threads on the same page of whatever you're viewing. So sometimes the promoted content was the thing actually relevant to the search and not the current thread. And this would be fine except it's not static/deterministic. The promoted content usually changes between when it's indexed and when it's accessed at a later time - so the thing that made it relevant to the search often isn't there anymore. So you have to either view the cached paged if available, go back and try different results, or refine your search.
They do now and the first thing they want to do is to sell their content to AI labs for millions/year.
It's kinda on us to ensure that it's only in the interregnum that we have the morbid and dysfunctional symptoms.
It's not a lot of sites (yet), but it's making the web get smaller, and worse, it's affecting the most useful and interesting parts of the web more than the commercial stuff.
Works especially great for horror movies, for us at least. I don't always quite understand why I may have vibed so well with a particular horror film since they can be so hit-or-miss between individuals, but other people who are more genre-savvy will be in the comments to explain it to me and have some great recommendations :)
I've also found that if I search for something directly on Reddit, I get all sorts of results. Some related, some tangential. And a lot of the time there's porn or NSFW content mixed in.